While cataloguing the collections of Barchester Cathedral library, Dr Black stumbles across an intriguing box of papers belonging to former Archdeacon...
A nobleman who will have no truck with superstition inherits a stately home overshadowed by a tree concealing an ancient curse.
Dissatisfied with his hotel room, Professor Anderson demands to be moved to number 12 where he can work undisturbed. But, infuriated by the ghoulish n...
Christopher Lee reads a chilling tale by Victorian writer MR James. A horrific account, based on a true story, of the discovery of the last of the leg...
Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a sceptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle. Unlike most ot...
After placing his ailing wife Alice (Gemma Jones) in a care home, retired academic James Parkin (John Hurt) goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hot...
An amateur archaeologist, Mr Paxton (Peter Vaughan), travels to the coastal Norfolk town of Seaburgh. His research has uncovered an old Anglo-Saxon le...
While cataloguing the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon ...
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terri...
The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of Medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an Abbey library. Studying a stained gl...
Man of leisure Sir Richard (Edward Petherbridge) receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its ...
For this the sixth of the BBC's "A Ghost Story for Christmas" series we are presented with an adaptation of a Charles Dickens story rather than one by...
A family moves into a cottage in the countryside. The cottage is situated near an ancient megalithic stone circle, and one of the stones which the fam...
Paul has just been divorced. Seeking solace he agrees to move to an isolated retreat run by, which becomes a sinister brother and sister. All seems we...
How different Fanshawe's holiday might have been had his trusty binoculars not broken. The Squire's archaic pair prove strangely bewitching, but is ev...
In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregard...
On his deathbed vicar Rant makes a secret confession to his niece Mary Simpson. Some twenty years later young librarian William Garrett is asked by el...
Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts and narrates a series of four half hour ghost stories all based on stories by M.R. James. 'The Stalls of Barcheste...
Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts and narrates a series of four half hour ghost stories all based on stories by M.R. James. 'The Stalls of Barcheste...
Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts and narrates a series of four half hour ghost stories all based on stories by M.R. James. 'The Stalls of Barcheste...
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
Five chilling tales for dark winter nights, told by Robert Powell
